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Joining us now to reaction to her report, tom, former clinton advisor. and guys, i will start with you, greg. we are sending now this guy manafort to jail claiming the -- the judge is saying he tried to tamper with witnesses. why is he in the jail and the rest are not? >> that's a good question. the judge should blame herself. she failed to issue a no contact heard with regard to the witnesses. i read through the court documents. weissman and robert mueller's evidence of this is scant. and cryptic. it's enough to revoke bail

Is the president. you heard it. what did you think? >> nothing. because it is just a personal opinion of the judge. there is no evidence in the courtroom in front of him to justify that kind of an opinion. it drew enormous headlines over the weekend because it's a political narrative which trump supporters agree. it's probably correct but it is irrelevant to his ruling on the matter. the matter was manafort moves to dismiss the indictment on the theory mueller doesn't have the jurisdiction to prosecute me for bank fraud. the judge says what does the jurisdiction comes from? a letter authorizin...

Legal standpoint. the judge could still rule this way. would manafort be off the hook if that were to happen? >> in judge ellis dismiss is this indictment that bob mueller didn't have the jurisdiction to prosecute this charge in this virginia. then the local prosecutors will get another indictment from another grand jury and they'll prosecute it. manafort won't be out of the woods. >> big headline but you aren't thinking legally. >> politically it is significant. it gave the president a handle but legally of no significance at all. judge ellis, a very experienced and wise trial judge knows tha...

>> maybe they think manafort is somebody they can flip faster. the fact is it all plays into what my client, the president of the united states has been quite sometime. the judge said this is a witch hunt in sum and substance with a tremendous amount of government misconduct attached it to and you're quite correct attorney general sessions should step up and dismiss this entire investigation. >> bill: rudy giuliani making the case for the president. bob mueller facing new criticism his team is overreaching in his investigation of possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. judge ...

>> yeah. >> manafort maintains his innocence. he said, i had hoped and expect mid business colleague, that's gates, would have had the strength to continue to battle to prove our innocence. for reasons yet to surface, he chose do otherwise. this does not alter my commitment to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me. the federal grand jury today returned an indictment today with additional charges against man for the. the indictment says manafort see creately paid former european politicians out of offshore bank accounts to lobby for ukraine. l...